On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, John Morrissey wrote:
> Yes, I would also rather avoid trying to convince Courier's maintainer to
> change this.
:-)
> Would a patch be accepted that detected negative usage and reported zero
in
> that case while still using strtoul() to achieve the full range of an RFC
> 2087 number? Zero is the de facto result of negative usage, and it would
> avoid throwing an error. It's almost cliched to say, but this would make
> libc-client more liberal in what it accepts, without impacting compliant
> implementations.
I don't want to do this by default, but the attached patch will do this if
you specify "/loser" in the mailbox name. You need to use "/loser" with
Courier servers anyway.
-- Mark --
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